Achoo!

Luc has his first cold right now, poor thing. It's a rather mild one though, thankfully. His nose is all stuffed up and he's been a bit fatigued, taking longer than normal naps. But so far no fever, and when awake he's been his usual happy smiley bouncy baby self. I've been using saline nasal drops and the evil aspirator to clear out his goopy nose before each meal. And he hates that. But it seems to be doing the trick.

Sonepheth is cleaning up today after Tuesday's ice storm left us with a tangle of tree branches in our yard, so many that he's actually considering renting a chipper. Our fence is crushed in two places, a small power line snapped, and our telephone lines are still down. But I'm just glad the heat is back on!

Luc and I bundled up and stayed home on Wednesday while the temperature in the house slowly decreased (our electricity went out at about 4:30 that morning). We hung out in the middle of the house, away from the family room end where the branches were coming down. By the time Sonepheth got home from work it was a chilly 57 degrees inside, and we were packed and ready to head to Sherwood. My mom and Paul miraculously still had power. I say miraculously, because that never happens! Pepco showed up to repair the wire just as we were leaving, and we had to turn off the circuit breaker. This meant that our heat didn't start blowing again until about 5pm on Thursday when Sonepheth got home from work. By then it had dropped to 42!

Kelly had a rough night on my mom's (enclosed, heated, kind of like a sunroom) porch. You can read about that (and more) in her online diary, Kelly's World. Just don't get mad when you see that Kelly has been blogging more than I have lately. She types faster than I do!

Come back later and scroll down for other new posts. I promise I'll clean out the queue, add photos, and publish them all tonight.

Update (Sunday 2/18/07): Did I promise something? What was it? Can anyone remind me? Okay, Okay, I'm doing it now...